Comments on: “The Environment” from the Fracking Gas Industry Perspective https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/09/13/%e2%80%9cthe-environment%e2%80%9d-from-the-fracking-gas-industry-perspective/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ben Burrows https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/09/13/%e2%80%9cthe-environment%e2%80%9d-from-the-fracking-gas-industry-perspective/#comment-242308 Ben Burrows Wed, 25 Sep 2019 03:32:31 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=29280#comment-242308 <strong>Letter to editor: Lowman Henry off-base on energy</strong> Lowman Henry (Times-Chronicle, 9/22) makes it sound as if energy companies began operating more efficiently and cleanly out of the goodness of their hearts, and that environmentalists should be overjoyed that Marcellus Shale gas drillers are no longer losing 15% of their product to leakage. The improvement Henry touts is precisely due to the strength of public reaction to the reckless pollution in the recent past, and to the insistence of the very environmentalists that Henry derides. Ben Burrows, Elkins Park, Montgomery County, PA http://www.montgomerynews.com/opinion/letter-to-editor-lowman-henry-off-base-on-energy/article_25351e70-ded4-11e9-be1a-07bf8e02bf0f.html Letter to editor: Lowman Henry off-base on energy

Lowman Henry (Times-Chronicle, 9/22) makes it sound as if energy companies began operating more efficiently and cleanly out of the goodness of their hearts, and that environmentalists should be overjoyed that Marcellus Shale gas drillers are no longer losing 15% of their product to leakage.

The improvement Henry touts is precisely due to the strength of public reaction to the reckless pollution in the recent past, and to the insistence of the very environmentalists that Henry derides.

Ben Burrows, Elkins Park, Montgomery County, PA

http://www.montgomerynews.com/opinion/letter-to-editor-lowman-henry-off-base-on-energy/article_25351e70-ded4-11e9-be1a-07bf8e02bf0f.html

]]> By: S. Thomas Bond https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/09/13/%e2%80%9cthe-environment%e2%80%9d-from-the-fracking-gas-industry-perspective/#comment-240924 S. Thomas Bond Sat, 14 Sep 2019 13:32:18 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=29280#comment-240924 This doesn’t signify a solution, only an inflection, a slight change in the right direction. The problem remains, as John Houldren said in 2007, “The way we are getting our energy is wrecking the environment. That is the energy problem. Tom Bond, Lewis County, WV This doesn’t signify a solution, only an inflection, a slight change in the right direction. The problem remains, as John Houldren said in 2007, “The way we are getting our energy is wrecking the environment. That is the energy problem.

Tom Bond, Lewis County, WV

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